Quotes About Enlightenment

Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here to realize your inner divinity and manifest your innate enlightenment.

It is a good idea to become involved with sports and athletics. It makes you strong. You need to be strong to deal with this world and the powers and forces that block enlightenment.

If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.

Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up.

How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.

As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience.

love of truth and insight which lent wings to the spirit of the Renaissance has grown cold

insight will help you very little.

Imensamente generosos, os meus livros, não me fazem nenhuma exigência, antes me oferecem todo tipo de iluminação.

To be enlightened is to be aware, always, of total reality in its immanent otherness - to be aware of it and yet remain in a condition to survive as an animal. Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be. Unhappily we make the task exceedingly difficult for ourselves.

It's a very salutary thing to realize that the rather dull universe in which most of us spend most of our time is not the only universe there is. I think it's healthy that people should have this experience.

The urge to transcend self-conscious selfhood is, as I have said, a principal appetite of the soul.

To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and inner world, not as they appear to an animal obsessed with survival or to a human being obsessed with words and notions, but as they are apprehended directly and unconditionally by Mind at Large-- this is an experience of inestimable value to everyone and especially to the intellectual.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

A totally unmystical world would be a world totally blind and insane.

In the final stage of ego-lessness there is an 'obscure knowledge' that All is In all - that All is actually each. This is as near, I take it, as a finite mind can ever come to 'perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe'.

Mescalin opens up the way of Mary, but shuts the door on that of Martha.

The most nearly free men have always been those who combined virtue with insight.

The last end of man, the ultimate reason for human existence, is unitive knowledge of the divine Ground

When Bayazid was asked how old he was, he replied, 'Four years.' They said, 'How can that be?' He answered, 'I have been veiled from God by the world for seventy years, but I have seen Him during the last four years. The period during which one is veiled does not belong to one's life.'" On another occasion someone knocked at the saint's door and cried, "Is Bayazid here?" Bayazid answered, "Is anybody here except God?

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. WILLIAM BLAKE

Nobody needs to go anywhere else. We are all, if we only knew it, already there. If I only knew who in fact I am, I should cease to behave as what I think I am; and if I stopped behaving as what I think I am, I should know who I am. What in fact I am, if only the Manichee I think I am would allow me to know it, is the reconciliation of yes and no lived out in total acceptance and the blessed experience of Not-Two.